Word: blaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thurgood Marshall, Special Counsel to the N.A.A.C.P., last night called upon President Eisenhower to put his full weight behind a strong Congressional civil rights program. "The actions of Congress are not his fault, but I do blame him for not speaking out," he said...
...biggest share of the blame has fallen on the state regulatory commissions, particularly the Texas Railroad Commission, which controls 45% of all U.S. oil production and so far has refused to boost its allowables appreciably. The independent oilmen who dominate the Texas commission have created an artificial shortage of oil and used that shortage to hike the price of crude oil 12% to a record average...
...major mystery yesterday by acknowledging that missing Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg died at Soviet secret police headquarters in Moscow ten years ago. The Russian admission--with a belated expression of regret--came after 12 years of straight-faced Soviet denials of any knowledge of Wallenberg's fate. It cast blame for the cover-up on a former Stalin police official, now dead...
...blame for the failure is not hard to fix. It rests squarely on the script writer, who, happily for his professional reputation, was not named in the screen credits. Mayerling had a large number of cliches, even for a television play. The members of the huge cast were constantly called on to deliver such literary gems as, "Anything is possible if you really want it." And most of the situations were as trite as the lines. For instance, when the love-stricken Rudolph is supposed to be shown pursuing Maria, where do we find him? Kneeling behind her in church...
...Doria's sinking (TIME, Aug. 6) came to an abrupt halt last week. In a quiet, unpublicized meeting held under the stern eyes of their London underwriters, the owners of the Stockholm and Andrea Doria reached an out-of-court settlement that 1) ended their attempts to fix the blame on each other, and 2) made it possible to establish a fund for payment of third-party claims, e.g., claims by passengers and shippers for injury and loss of life and property...